'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind-Emily Dickinson

I've been thinking a good bit about that poem lately. I've also been re-reading Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton ...

by Catherine Orenstein
Right now we’re inundated with dramas about the married woman, and “domestic dream” is hardly the vibe. Join in on the cultural conversation taking place behinds the hedges on Wisteria Lane. Discuss >>

Two of our favorite media mavens, Jennifer L. Pozner and Jessica Seigel, mind-wrestle over the hottest TV series of the season, Desperate Housewives. Is it good feminist fun, or sexist backlash? Let the emails begin … Discuss >>

by Stepanie Nolen
“They rape a woman, five or six of them at a time — but that is not enough. Then they shoot a gun into her vagina,” says Dr. Mukwege, one of only two doctors in the eastern Congo performing reconstructive surgery for women with fistula. Discuss >>

For years, the last page of Ms. magazine has featured advertisements that are insulting or degrading to women. Some make us roll our eyes. Others inspire us to write letters or to boycott products. View the first batch to be featured online -- and send in your suggestions for a new web-only "No Comment" sectionDiscuss >>

by Eve Pell
Isabel Pell, a handsome, heroic, cruel and athletic woman who once owned 40 pairs of riding boots, seduced women in three countries, and played a heroic but controversial role in World War II, was a skeleton in the closet of Eve Pell’s upper-crust family. Discuss >>

by Donna Brazile
As a Catholic woman, I have tried to explain my strong
support of reproductive freedom by telling the stories of women I know and love.
It’s imperative that the pro-choice movement reeducate and empower the masses to go on the political offense. Discuss >>

by Carey Lovelace
“Too hot for you,” the Aboriginal woman says. So here, smack in the middle of the Australian Outback, thousands of miles from anywhere, I station myself in the meager shade of a burnt pine. Discuss >>

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Think about it. If you had $20 billion to invest, you could do more than just make a whole lot of money. You could also create a wealth of positive change in the companies whose stocks you hold. Discuss >>

Indian women are making a comeback, starting in the southern-most state, Tamil Nadu, where Avadi houses the Tamil Nadu Special Forces Fifth Battalion: the world's first all-female battalion. Discuss >>